Tim Powers, was A pet peeve

[Brooks R]

No: HPFGUIDX 2238

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, voicelady at m... wrote:
> On Mon, 25 September 2000, Peg Kerr wrote:
> 
> > Ahem.  Actually, the writer I can think of who does this the MOST 
is a man, Tim Powers.  Ever read _Dinner at Deviant's Palace_, or 
_Last Call_, or _Anubis Gates_ or _Stress of Her Regard_?  I used to 
tease...[snip]

It is a common observation of Powers as to how the lead male suffers 
physically - even in his first published novel, one of the old Lancer 
books - he ends the book crippled for life, I think.  

_Anubis Gates_, however,has to take the cake as one of the most 
incredibly tangled plots (that all makes sense in the end) ever 
written.  Of course, when your plot involves several times jumps it
is easy to get tangled.....

And I am still intrigued by his suggestion (which of course none of 
the regular 17th century characters get), in the one with the
Fountain of Youth and Blackbeard, that magic doesn't work well on
cold iron because iron is the last thing stars make!  Whoa.....

-Brooks